Security Product Marketing Manager

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$119K/yr – $172K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

The role owns the outward and inward security narrative for Altera, shaping messaging across design, data, and supply chain security while developing customer-facing assets and sales enablement, and leading competitive positioning and market-trend translation.

  • Own outbound and inbound security narrative across design security, data security, and supply chain security
  • Develop customer-facing assets and sales enablement materials
  • Lead strategic messaging for Secure Device Manager, crypto agility, and PQC transitions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain Altera’s outward-facing security narrative and positioning across design security, data security, and supply chain security
  • Lead messaging for core innovations, including Secure Device Manager (SDM) as root of trust, crypto agility, and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) adoption and transition strategies
  • Build the inward and outward narrative that connects security features to business outcomes and maps customer threats to Altera solutions
  • Develop high-quality, customer-facing assets including solution briefs, whitepapers, blogs, website product pages, sales presentations and executive decks
  • Equip sales teams with security-focused pitch decks, competitive positioning and objection handling, and use-case and vertical-specific messaging
  • Analyze competitive security positioning to develop differentiated messaging highlighting FPGA-based crypto agility, lifecycle security advantages and supply chain protection capabilities
  • Identify emerging trends and translate them into actionable marketing strategies
  • The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings , etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, or a related role.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline.
  • Experience in semiconductors, embedded systems, or infrastructure technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to create external-facing technical content and messaging.
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals, including:
  • - Secure boot and root of trust
  • - Cryptography concepts and key management
  • - Hardware-based security principles
  • - Network security technologies, including MACsec (Media Access Control Security) and IPsec (Internet Protocol Security)
  • - Secure communications, authentication, encryption, and key exchange protocols

Preferred

  • Experience with hardware or platform security (FPGA, SoC, ASIC, or infrastructure systems)
  • Familiarity with Post-quantum cryptography (PQC), crypto agility and lifecycle security and regulatory frameworks (CRA, CNSA, FIPS, etc.)
  • Experience marketing to regulated or high-assurance industries
  • Background in developing security-focused campaigns or thought leadership
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Altera

Altera: Accelerating InnovatorsAltera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.

Founded in 1983
San Jose, California, USA
1.8K employees (103 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
279.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$110
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.9%
Direct
48.8%
Referral
10.6%
Social
1.8%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
40 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

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